[HTML][HTML] Addressing the global snakebite crisis with geo-spatial analyses–Recent advances and future direction

AFV Pintor, N Ray, J Longbottom, CA Bravo-Vega… - Toxicon: X, 2021 - Elsevier
Venomous snakebite is a neglected tropical disease that annually leads to hundreds of
thousands of deaths or long-term physical and mental ailments across the developing world …

An artificial intelligence model to identify snakes from across the world: Opportunities and challenges for global health and herpetology

I Bolon, L Picek, AM Durso, G Alcoba… - PLoS neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that kills an estimated
81,000 to 138,000 people and disables another 400,000 globally every year. The World …

[HTML][HTML] Promoting co-existence between humans and venomous snakes through increasing the herpetological knowledge base

A Malhotra, W Wüster, JB Owens, CW Hodges… - Toxicon: X, 2021 - Elsevier
Snakebite incidence at least partly depends on the biology of the snakes involved. However,
studies of snake biology have been largely neglected in favour of anthropic factors, with the …

Supervised learning computer vision benchmark for snake species identification from photographs: Implications for herpetology and global health

AM Durso, GK Moorthy, SP Mohanty, I Bolon… - Frontiers in artificial …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We trained a computer vision algorithm to identify 45 species of snakes from photos and
compared its performance to that of humans. Both human and algorithm performance is …

[HTML][HTML] Citizen science and online data: Opportunities and challenges for snake ecology and action against snakebite

AM Durso, RR de Castañeda, C Montalcini… - Toxicon: X, 2021 - Elsevier
The secretive behavior and life history of snakes makes studying their biology, distribution,
and the epidemiology of venomous snakebite challenging. One of the most useful, most …

Broadening the research landscape in the field of snakebite envenoming: Towards a holistic perspective

JM Gutiérrez, I Bolon, J Borri, RR de Castañeda - Toxicon, 2023 - Elsevier
Snakebite envenoming (SBE) is a neglected tropical disease that kills and maims hundreds
of thousands of people yearly, particularly in impoverished rural settings of the Global South …

Image-based social sensing: combining AI and the crowd to mine policy-adherence indicators from Twitter

V Negri, D Scuratti, S Agresti, D Rooein… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social Media provides a trove of information that, if aggregated and analysed appropriately
can provide important statistical indicators to policy makers. In some situations these …

Overview of SnakeCLEF 2022: Automated snake species identification on a global scale

L Picek, M Hrúz, AM Durso, I Bolon - 2022 - otik.uk.zcu.cz
The main goal of the third year of the SnakeCLEF challenge was to provide an evaluation
platform that helps track the performance of AI-driven methods for snake species recognition …

[HTML][HTML] Scorpion sting envenomation, a neglected tropical disease: a nationwide survey exploring perspectives and attitudes of resident doctors from India

A Kumar, S Goyal, MK Garg… - The American Journal …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Scorpion sting envenomation (SSE) is a commonly encountered and a significant problem in
the tropics, affecting rural and marginalized communities. However, it is not formally listed as …

[HTML][HTML] Species richness, seasonality, and mortality of snakes in human-snake conflicts in Thailand: Insights from citizen science data

N Ratnarathorn, N Sanunsilp, P Laoungbua… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Human-snake interactions are one of the most intense human-wildlife conflicts in the tropics.
The associated snake mortalities could limit their viability and distribution, consequently …